Balancing act

Yesterday I drove to Brighton to do an unpaid ten-minute spot. It was about a five hour round trip with the justification that I can now add performed at the Brighton Fringe Festival to my biog.

All seven acts on the bill were men aged between 21 and 45. The gender imbalance in stand-up comedy is an endless debate that got a recent refueling by Germaine Greer's tremendous exercise in hole-digging.

All of this is preamble to an industry-specific joke that came to me on the drive home: -

What do you call a comedy night with three or more women in the line-up?

A benefit night for breast cancer

Boom. Tish.